The content of each unit is built around a carefully crafted daily routine familiar to all Pre-K teachers and caregivers. Themes, skills, and concepts are developed through quality children's fiction and nonfiction trade book classics. The consistent format and features in every unit makes it easy for teachers to use and children to learn.
The at-a-glance Weekly Planner breaks each full day into appropriate blocks of learning time, along with a half-day option.
Center Time provides plans for setting up and orienting children to self-selected activities in which they explore, experiment, deepen their understanding of new concepts, and practice budding skills. Conversation tips for developing language in the context of centers are included.
Small Groups provides three small group activities each day to address math, writing, language and print manipulatives, science, and book browsing. A tab indicates the amount of teacher support required, and each activity includes suggestions for meeting the needs of ELL students, children needing additional challenge, or children requiring social or emotional support.
Conversations With Children helps teachers use opportunities for informational conversation with children to develop children's language, social skills, and concept knowledge. These pages include models for literacy-related conversations to use during mealtimes and times of transition.
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Story Time guides teachers as the class reads and discusses one or two trade books. (Each book is read four times over a period of time, advancing from an initial sense of story and vocabulary to active interaction with the text.) Teachers view useful notes on purpose and standards, strategies for reading aloud, key vocabulary with simple definitions, ELL and other adaptations, progress monitoring, and suggested conversations to model successful reading.
Songs, Word Play, Letters builds children's phonological awareness, alphabet letter knowledge, and vocabulary with fun literacy circle activities.
Let's Find Out About It builds students' background knowledge using information from nonfiction texts and hands-on experiences. Let's Talk About It, an alternating feature, addresses topics of social and emotional importance to children and teachers.
In addition, End-of-the-Day Centers promote conversation that develops language at the end of the day's learning, and Connect With Families suggests family activities that develop oral language and literacy.
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